A Metro Historical Commission search committee will recommend Monday that the commission hire Eric Breitkreutz to be its next executive director.

Breitkreutz is unemployed at the moment and last worked as executive director of North Shore Housing Trust Inc. in Newburyport, Mass., in 2007 and 2008, said Robin Brown, assistant director of Metro Human Resources. He also worked as the executive director of Historic Boston Inc. from 2004 to 2006.

Breitkreutz earned a bachelor’s degree in history and American studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1993 and a master’s in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, according to his Linked In page.

The historical commission, which works to preserve and document the city’s history and its historic places and neighborhoods, will meet at 1 p.m. Monday at Sunnyside Mansion, 3000 Granny White Pike. The search committee met earlier this week and agreed to recommend Breitkreutz over three Nashville-based finalists, including Tim Walker, the historical commission’s interim executive director.